And while our news team couldn't convince Kariq Tzul, the alleged victim of brutality from the GSU, to speak with us after he had been released, Monica Bodden caught up with him and his family an hour before news time.
Asking to appear off camera, he outlined his version of events to us beginning from when the officers entered the King Street House, up until he was released from the hospital.
Here's how he described it:…
Kariq Tzul
"Miss they just come out there and start beat me. 3 of them just come up by the place, ask me who is up there and tell me get down and start beat me. After a little while, they dragged me to the back and ask me who else in the house, nobody in the house but me. They start talk about breaking my ribs and start hit me in my face over and over and 3 of them just start beat me up until they tired of beating me, after that they bring me out."
Monica Bodden
"At what point did they mention to you what, or why?"
Kariq Tzul
"They didn't say nothing, they just ask me who is in there, I told them nobody, nobody and they insist on dragging me to the back and beat me for no reason. They just come up and meeting me texting on my phone."
Monica Bodden
"Then after that I understand you were taken to the police station?"
Kariq Tzul
"They didn't take me to station, they drove me around and around the area and when they done they took me by Amara by Lion King and before they throw me out the said if i wasn't dead by the end of the year, they will do it."
Monica Bodden
"Tell me about your injuries"
Kariq Tzul
"All my ribs are swollen up. 3 of them were trying to break my ribs, I had fight them to get through the door to see what the happen, none of them wanted me to get through, they kept on hauling me back by the bathroom to try beat me for no reason. They just meet me, sitting down texting. They didn't say what happen, they just beat me."
Mother of Kariq Tzul
"Sometime after 11, I got a phone call saying the GSU was beating up my son, so I took a cab right away and came to the facility. I did not see anything, so I decided to go to the police station. By this time I had gotten numerous calls saying they beat my son until he defecate on himself, so I start crying and bawling because, come one, a grown person no just stool themselves just like that, it has to be something. I want into the GSU office and asked the lady, where is my son? What happen to my son? What did you do to my son? Somebody please tell me. She told me to get outside and I went outside and after a while the chief of GSU came and I looked them and ask, what happened to my son? And nobody responded to me. Eventually I decided to call my son's phone, he told me what happen, I picked him up, took him to Belize Medical Associates where we ran numerous test because the doctor said he is swollen, he's beaten and I done spend approximately 285 dollars on doctor bills."
According to the doctors, Kariq Tzul's ribs are bruised, and he is using a neck brace because one of the officers allegedly injured it in a chokehold. As noted in the interview, Tzul claims that one of the officers kicked him so hard in his abdomen that he ended up soiling himself.
And so what does the commander of the GSU have to say about all this? Well, it seems he is in fence-mending mode. When we psoke to him this evening – he was going to Tzul's house to speak with him and his family….
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